Tag: ANIMALS
A citywide ban on horse-drawn carriages is being drafted in City Council, this morning’s ‘Capital Playbook’ reveals (the full article is under paywall). According to the newsletter, Queens Democrat Daniel Dromm is the primary author of the legislation, which Mayor de Blasio has promised to pass. “It’s just a matter of time,” Dromm says. “It’s way […]
Robin Sandusky was munching on her kale salad at the Chelsea outpost of Manhattan chain Guy & Gallard when she noticed something unusual lurking among the leafy greens. At first, she thought it was an errant vegetable. Then: “I turned it over, and I could see its eye,” she says. It was, inexplicably, the severed […]
Good news for New York’s mute swans, which are currently under threat of total eradication by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation: the DEC will consider managing the birds in a way that doesn’t involve hunting down and killing every last one of them. The DEC originally proposed the plan because mute swans are an […]
Police commissioner Bill Bratton announced this week that the NYPD will begin enforcing rules to ensure horse-and-carriage rides are done in as humane a fashion as possible. Previously, that duty was held by the ASPCA. According to CBS, cops will conduct stable inspections and are “trying to figure out how police will enforce rules banning […]
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation would like to kill all the state’s 2,000-plus mute swans by 2025, citing the fact that they’re technically a non-native species that destroys other animals’ habitats. Some people, unsurprisingly, are upset about this. One such person is Tony Avella, a state senator from Queens, who’s introduced a […]
Upwards of 3,000 roosters in New York will now hopefully be headed toward a better life, as authorities conducted the state’s largest-ever cockfighting bust over the weekend. According to a release from the ASPCA, Sunday morning, 3,000 fighting birds were seized from a 90-acre farm in Plattekill where they were “living in deplorable conditions.” The […]
British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper took these photos at the slaughterhouse of Danish Crown, the world’s largest pork exporter. They’re are brutal. Here’s what he says about the photos, on Dezeen. The reality is that the society we live in craves meat, on a massive scale. Where there is a demand there will be a supply, and […]
Mitik, the orphaned baby walrus who made the trip from Alaska to NYC in 2012, only to have its New York Aquarium home battered by the waters of Hurricane Sandy, will be leaving the city for a spell. As repairs to the Aquarium are completed, he’ll be shipped to a new home in San Antonio, […]
Here’s some evidence of just how badly we’re fucking up the planet. Tributyltin, a chemical that was used in painting ship hulls before it was banned internationally in 2008, has been making female snails grown penises and vas deferens — the tubes that carry sperm — for decades. In some cases, the growths were large […]
In the above video, Jan Schekauski the human crawls around on the floor while Dasha the rhesus macaque crawls around on his back. Also, Dasha has paint all over his or her little monkey-hands, and so Jan gets paint all over his back. Then, Jan gets a tattoo of the marks Dasha made. Why? Because “human dignity […]
